slothly slothings of a slothish sloth

GenX | Seattle | White | Queer (they or xe) Things I blog about: media, social justice, history, queer stuff, mental health (anxiety, depression, ADHD), nostalgia, funny shit, being old and salty, my frustratingly conservative mother. I have separate blogs for work (archaeology) and fanfic/fandom stuff.

[rowandriftwood]

Sometimes I think about the fact that my great-grandparents were toxic exes who kept hooking up after they divorced and remarried to other people in the 1930s. Half of the reason I do genealogy is to answer the question, "Why the fuck are we like this?"

[ellewantsrevenge]

my favorite fantasy world is tortall

[pnw-forest-side]

Some more from the loop trail - Quinault Rainforest

[neurodivergentaf]

im dying i completely forgot this conversation i had with a friend three years ago 😭

[rowandriftwood]

The past tense of cast is cast, not casted. Please, I am begging y’all.

[rowandriftwood]

Nothing quite like a summer afternoon reading fanfic and enjoying a little hookah in my hammock.

[zanephillips]

EWAN MCGREGOR Velvet Goldmine (1998) dir. Todd Haynes

[rowandriftwood]

I dreamed I was explaining my friendship with Antares and how it ended to someone, and I started crying, so I guess I still have some feelings about that almost 30 years later. Best friend breakups are some of the hardest. So many of my formative memories and early favorites involved her. But things just got too fraught and she kept testing my boundaries until I just couldn’t take it anymore. Maybe I could have handled it better. I don’t know. She probably felt like I abandoned her, and maybe she was right. I was so bad at keeping in touch with people after I left for uni. But it’s a long time too late to do anything about it now, and I doubt the people we have become could be any kind of friends at all. Sometimes there are no good answers.

[hollanovverse]

[rowandriftwood]

If you want to know what the 80s were like, I once got the record of the Ghostbusters theme song in a McDonald's Happy Meal.

[rowandriftwood]

I have done it. I have become obsessed with something that no one else on earth is obsessed with or probably even cares about. I am a fandom of 1. I spend an absurd amount of time thinking about my pet subject. Some materials related to my obsession are impossible to find. This is my life now.

[rowandriftwood]

Always thinking about Nellie and Fae.

[rowandriftwood]

I have done it. I have become obsessed with something that no one else on earth is obsessed with or probably even cares about. I am a fandom of 1. I spend an absurd amount of time thinking about my pet subject. Some materials related to my obsession are impossible to find. This is my life now.

[maidthings]

i really like how the milkman exists as an entirely fossilized character who now serves no purpose other than to fuck people's wives for the punchline

[hrgifs]

CONNOR STORRIE Tiffany & Co. — Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden

[rowandriftwood]

Looking at pics of Connor Storrie always reminds me that I need to do my T shot.

[picascribit]

I have been trying to wrap my head around how little one-on-one time Shane and Ilya had together prior to the cottage, which means I now know more than I ever thought I would about the NHL regular season schedule. This is the timeline of hookups I came up with (at least for the show; I know it's different in the book):

2010: Summer Toronto

2011: February Nashville

2013: Autumn Montreal

2014: June Las Vegas

2014-2015: 3 regular season games, All Stars, playoffs? awards?

2015-2016: 3 regular season games, All Stars, playoffs? awards?

2016: Autumn Boston (tuna meltdown)

2017: February Tampa Bay, February/March Boston

There were only two seasons where they were hooking up regularly, and those were the two seasons when Montreal won the Cup. I don't know if they were hooking up during the playoffs, since many players traditionally/superstitiously abstain from sex during that time. Both of them may or may not also have attended the MLH awards during those years.

I don't really understand how pre-season exhibition games work (feel free to explain if you know), so there's a possibility they could have met up during that time as well.

So that's a probable minimum of 15 hookups, but possibly no more than 20, over a period of seven years. Maybe 40 hours total spent together off the ice in all that time. Just ... insane to think about.

[finelytaylored]

Jacob Tierney talks about “boring” and “fuck you” meaning “I love you” for Shane and Ilya:

“A really good friend of mine—a person who reads my scripts who's a brilliant novelist named Rainbow Rowell—she read the first episode and she said to me… “just remember that every ‘fuck you’ is ‘I love you,’ and maybe you're saying ‘fuck you’ too many times”

“And I was like oh, that's such a good call. That's a great call. Because it was just a reminder of all of the things they say to each other that are not ‘I love you’ and that are not—”

“Boring, you know, when Ilya calls Shane boring, he's saying he's in love with him. And he's not boring, [Ilya] is endlessly fascinated by Shane. And the only way he can communicate that is by making fun of him and calling him boring, because anything else would rip his soul out through his face.”

“Like that's the idea, and so even the words we use to obfuscate matter, you know?”

(via live Q&A with Stage 32 on March 24, 2026)